Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-11-05 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:42:21PM -0800, Rich Wales wrote: Wesley Craig wrote: But most sync_server errors that will cause sync_client to bail out ought to cause sync_server to give a reasonably unique log message for the failure. As I explained earlier this evening, I didn't see

Re: 4xusers imap processes?

2007-12-19 Thread Kenneth Marshall
Mike, Many mail clients keep open multiple IMAP connections. If they are staying around, I would leave them alone. Clients get upset when their connections go away on them, and then they just open a new one so the problem remains. Ken On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 04:56:27PM -0600, Mike Eggleston

Re: Is Cyrus SASL still under active development

2008-01-23 Thread Kenneth Marshall
The patch to fix handling of the quote character in the rimap module for saslauthd is critical. I have applied the fix manually and for the first time in years do not have spinning saslauthd processes. Regards, Ken Marshall On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:11:34PM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote: Its

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be locking issues

2008-02-28 Thread Kenneth Marshall
Jeff, Delivery database format can cause this type of problem, among other databases. For any DB that is updated with contention, use either BerkeleyDB or Skiplist format. We also had a similar issue when we did not have the expunge process running and pruning the delivery database and its size

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be locking issues

2008-02-28 Thread Kenneth Marshall
It may be that the software RAID 5 is your problem. Without the use of NVRAM for a cache, all of the writes need all 3 disks. That will cause quite a bottle-neck. Ken On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:36:43PM -0700, Jeff Fookson wrote: Michael Bacon wrote: What database format are you using for

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be locking issues

2008-02-29 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:16:24AM +0100, Pascal Gienger wrote: Jeff Fookson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Databases are all skiplist. As a rule of thumb, do not use skiplist for the duplicate delivery suppression database (deliver.db). Even if everybody hates it, use BerkeleyDB, Version

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be locking issues

2008-02-29 Thread Kenneth Marshall
Delivery through the lmtpd process should not take long enough to cause this type of backlog unless there is a performance bottle-neck, such as the delivery DB format that has been suggested previously, particularly in such a small system. Cheers, Ken On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:09:58PM -0600,

Re: Deleting messages marked for deletion older than X days

2008-08-18 Thread Kenneth Marshall
I think that the cyr_expire command may be what you are searching for. Ken On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:35:20PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: Hi, I am looking for a way to run a daily script on the Cyrus IMAP server that processes every user's mail folders and deletes every message marked

Re: Deleting messages marked for deletion older than X days

2008-08-18 Thread Kenneth Marshall
by an email client who is lacking a decent purge feature. Gerard Beekmans IT Manager Achilles Media Tel: 403-678-1216 ext. 102 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenneth Marshall wrote: I think that the cyr_expire command may be what you are searching for. Ken On Mon, Aug 18, 2008

Re: Deleting messages marked for deletion older than X days

2008-08-18 Thread Kenneth Marshall
). Gerard Beekmans IT Manager Achilles Media Tel: 403-678-1216 ext. 102 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenneth Marshall wrote: In the manual page, the definition of the '-X' option seems to do what you want: -X expunge-days Expunge previously deleted messages older than

Re: MUA not noticing new mail

2008-08-29 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 08:55:40AM -0500, Mike Eggleston wrote: Morning, I have a user that has complained of her MAU not notifying her about receiving new mail many times. In the beginning she was on a Windows XP using first Outlook 2000, then Outlook 2007. Now she's on a Mac OS X

Re: MUA not noticing new mail

2008-08-29 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:23:56AM -0500, Mike Eggleston wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Kenneth Marshall might have said: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 08:55:40AM -0500, Mike Eggleston wrote: Morning, I have a user that has complained of her MAU not notifying her about receiving new mail

Re: MUA not noticing new mail

2008-08-29 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:34:24PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: On 29 Aug 2008, at 10:13, Kenneth Marshall wrote: We tried many IDLE options here, but so many clients had poor IDLE support that we ended up turning it off. The number of help desk calls such as the one above dropped essentially

Re: Cyrus 2.3.13 RC2

2008-10-07 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:18:01PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote: I just put together a second release candidate for Cyrus 2.3.13. I'd appreciate any independent testing before I release this to the masses. http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~murch/cyrus-imapd-2.3.13rc2.tar.gz

Re: Jumping a bunch of Cyrus imap versions, and moving to a new machine...

2008-10-10 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:18:41PM -0400, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: 1.5.19 to 2.2.13, to be exact. I have a small mail system (about half a dozen users, and 3GB of mail store) that I am migrating from an old Debian box to a new one. Obviously, this is a pretty major version leap. Any

Re: Vacation Application

2009-03-10 Thread Kenneth Marshall
We use SmartSieve (http://smartsieve.sourceforge.net/) to manage vacation/sieve scripts. We look up the appropriate backend in our LDAP directory, but a DNS lookup could be done just as easily. It is simple to setup an configure, 1.0RC2. Cheers, Ken On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 03:00:39PM -0400,

Re: Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

2009-03-17 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:06:15PM +0200, Leena Heino wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:26 +0200, Leena Heino wrote: What is the recommended process to restore deleted messages or mailboxes when delayed delete is in use? Use the unexpunge

Re: How to clean up after syncserver

2009-04-13 Thread Kenneth Marshall
We are currently cleaning up after a similar analysis. Our current plan is to clean up the sync. dirs on a restart of the sync_client. If there is no advantage to saving state, maybe the sync_server could do this automatically. Cheers, Ken On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 09:29:11PM +0200, Michael Glad

Re: Vacation Application

2009-05-15 Thread Kenneth Marshall
++) { $addresses[] = $entries[$i]['mailalternateaddress'][$j]; } } } ldap_close($ds); } return $addresses; } I hope that this helps. Regards, Ken -Original Message- From: Kenneth Marshall [mailto:k...@rice.edu] Sent: Tuesday

Re: Load testing Cyrus IMAP

2009-06-02 Thread Kenneth Marshall
mstone is worth checking out. Cheers, Ken On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:28:35PM -0700, Bhavesh Lad wrote: Were currently running Cyrus on a single RHEL 4 (64 bit) and are planning on a migrating to 3 HP DL380 G5's running RHEL 5 (64 bit) with a fiber channel backend. I want to test the

Re: Over quota when not

2009-11-04 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:51:18PM +, Richard Gilbert wrote: We have been happily running cyrus-imap 2.2.12 on a Solaris 10 system (installed from Blastwave) for years. I now have a problem with a user's quota which I don't understand. Usage as reported by cyradm lq, lqr and by the

Re: VMware for Cyrus?

2009-11-09 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:35:53PM +0100, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: --On 9. November 2009 14:10:54 +0100 Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: While virtualization has advantages it has also disadvantages. One thing is that it introduces an additional layer of complexity into the game.

Re: VMware for Cyrus?

2009-11-09 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 03:35:53PM +0100, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: --On 9. November 2009 07:51:34 -0600 Kenneth Marshall k...@rice.edu wrote: I will go ahead and chime in here. If and only if your I/O usage is well understood and managed, would a VM option work. As others have mentioned, any

Re: [Bug] Compression failures in IMAPS (with thunderbird 3.0)

2009-12-16 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:09:41PM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote: On 12/16/2009 01:14 PM, Michal Hlavinka wrote: Hi, two fedora users has found there are compression failures when cyrus-imapd (2.3.15) is communicating with thunderbird 3.0 (this is first version supporting compression). Does

Re: Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

2010-02-18 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:41:07PM +0100, Pascal Gienger wrote: RFC 4978 [1] defines an IMAP COMPRESS command to compress IMAP data communication. Is there any interest to implement this extension in the cyrus imap server? For low bandwith connections this could be useful but I don't know

Re: Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

2010-02-18 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:13:44AM +1100, Rob Mueller wrote: For low bandwith connections this could be useful but I don't know if that's a typical case nowadays. Together with the IMAP IDLE command it should be fine for mobile devices... [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4978 I thought

Re: How to migrate mail to a new server

2010-02-19 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 04:34:21PM +0100, Eric Luyten wrote: On Fri, February 19, 2010 4:13 pm, Patrick Boutilier wrote: On 02/19/2010 11:03 AM, Marco van Putten wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hi All, I have been reading the thread about using xfer to migrate to a different server

Re: SQL backend defaulting to engine 'pgsql'

2010-03-06 Thread Kenneth Marshall
Hi David, The default is to use the PostgreSQL database (pgsql) as the backend database. Cheers, Ken On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:29:43PM +0100, David Touzeau wrote: Dear I'm using 2.3.15 version on Mandriva with LDAP backed In syslog i receive this error SQL backend defaulting to

Re: Nested INBOX folders - hard to delete

2010-03-29 Thread Kenneth Marshall
You can use cyradm to delete all the mailboxes that are listed in the mailbox database. If the directory is not in the list, once all the lower folders are deleted with cyradm, you can just rm xxx the directory and continue up the chain until they are all removed. Cheers, Ken On Mon, Mar 29,

Re: [cyrus-imapd] unexpunge folder problem

2010-04-15 Thread Kenneth Marshall
Hi Marco, unexpunge will only recover deleted messages within a folder. You will need to rename the mailbox from DELETED/user/xxx/yyy back to the correct location. Cheeers, Ken On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 02:35:02PM +0200, Marco wrote: Hi, I have a problem using unexpunge. It works as expected

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:35:26AM -0300, Andre Nathan wrote: Hello I'm setting up a two-machine cyrus cluster using OCFS2 over DRBD. The setup is working fine, and I'm now considering the load balancing options I have. I believe the simplest option would be to simply rely on DNS load

Re: Cyrus backend crashing (Solaris)

2010-07-19 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 05:04:18PM +0100, David Mayo wrote: We are running a Cyrus Murder with one proxy/MUPDATE master and one backend server which uses Cyrus Replication to replicate onto another host. All hosts are running Cyrus imapd 2.3.13 on Solaris 10 Update 7. Since moving all

Re: competition

2010-09-22 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:27:11PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 22/09/2010, at 22:17, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:44 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2010 13:47:26 Jeffrey T Eaton wrote: snipped I am probably missing some info here,

Re: competition

2010-09-22 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:48:49PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 22/09/2010, at 22:33, Kenneth Marshall wrote: On a bad shutdown it requires admin intervention very frequently which is pretty tedious. And yes, upgrading it is also a PITA. That is why we moved to skiplist

Re: popuseimapflags does not use IMAP seen state

2010-11-08 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 12:21:34PM -0500, Joseph Brennan wrote: Kenneth Marshall k...@rice.edu wrote: Hi, I just posted this bug to the Cyrus Bugzilla system: Bug 3329 - popuseimapflags does not pass IMAP seen - POP3 seen and I thought I would see if anyone else in the community

Re: Does anyone allow unlimited or extremely large quotas?

2010-11-16 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:41:46PM +0530, Shuvam Misra wrote: I think the issue you will encounter first is clients will start to fall down when folders exceed a 'reasonable' number of messages. Common IMAP clients I've seen start to exhibit severe performance issues beyond a few

Re: Does anyone allow unlimited or extremely large quotas?

2010-11-18 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:38:49AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 14:12 +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: On 11/16/2010 12:30 PM, Dave McMurtrie wrote: Good morning, This may be slightly off-topic, so apologies in advance. Is there anyone out there who allows

Re: cyr_expire does not delete files on disk with expunge_mode:delayed?

2010-11-22 Thread Kenneth Marshall
We hit the same issue. You will need to run cyr_expire twice to have items be removed correctly. Once as you are currently doing and then a second time ignoring the mailbox annotations (the -a option). This will actually run the delete. Regards, Ken On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:55:46PM +0100,

Re: sieveshell uses global sieve folder when auth'ing as cyrus

2010-12-10 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 09:00:31AM -0600, Dan White wrote: On 10/12/10?09:38?+0100, Stefan Jurisch wrote: Hello, I've got a weird problem with the timsieved of above mentioned version of cyrus. This cyrus is part of a so called Open-Xchange Appliance Edition (OXAE). First, everything was

Re: sieveshell uses global sieve folder when auth'ing as cyrus

2010-12-10 Thread Kenneth Marshall
explain what you're seeing. [...] Try this in imapd.conf: sieve_sasl_mech_list: digest-md5 external gssapi plain srp Okay, I didn't know an option like 'sieve_sasl_mech_list' yet. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 03:08:51PM +, Kenneth Marshall wrote: We

Re: Cyrus IMAP 2.5.10 BerkeleyDB use?

2017-02-17 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:13:21PM +1100, ellie timoney wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017, at 09:42 AM, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 04:14:38PM -0600, Dan White wrote: > > > On 02/16/17 16:10 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > > > >We are runn

Cyrus IMAP 2.5.10 BerkeleyDB use?

2017-02-16 Thread Kenneth Marshall
Hi Cyrus Developers, We are running version cyrus-imapd-2.5.10, and even though no databases in imapd.conf default to berkeleydb, something is still using it. Here are our database definitions from our imapd.conf: duplicate_db_path: /dev/shm/cyrus-imapd/duplicate_db statuscache_db_path:

Re: Cyrus IMAP 2.5.10 BerkeleyDB use?

2017-02-16 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 04:14:38PM -0600, Dan White wrote: > On 02/16/17 16:10 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > >We are running version cyrus-imapd-2.5.10, and even though no databases > >in imapd.conf default to berkeleydb, something is still using it. Here > >are our data

Re: cyr_expire suddenly segfaulting

2017-03-13 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:32:38AM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote: > So everything is 2.4 defaults, which are: > > brong@wot:~/src/cyrus-imapd$ grep '_db"' lib/imapoptions > { "annotation_db", "skiplist", STRINGLIST("berkeley", "berkeley-hash", > "skiplist")} > { "duplicate_db", "skiplist",

Re: What you do with old account

2020-06-23 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 04:10:56PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > > In fact I just notice, I've no idea...how to remove a mailbox in cyrus > > With dovecot it's rm -rf ;-) Something I famillar with. cyradm deletemailbox user/xxx Regards, Ken Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/

Re: Huge performance problems after updating from 2.4 to 2.5.8

2016-07-22 Thread Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:04:26AM +1000, Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016, at 23:52, Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016, at 23:46, Andy Dorman via Info-cyrus wrote: > > > So if the issue apparently lies with twoskip, can we keep our dbs using >

Re: Problem moving between folders during 2.3.16 -> 2.5.9 upgrade

2016-07-25 Thread Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus
dwana wrote: > > Thanks for reporting this. Ellie, if you get a chance can you look at > > it? I'm in the middle of the the FastMail security rollout right now, so > > I can't do anything today. > > > > Bron. > > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016, at 11:45, Kenneth

Re: Problem moving between folders during 2.3.16 -> 2.5.9 upgrade

2016-07-25 Thread Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 03:53:43PM +1000, ellie timoney wrote: > I don't have a 2.3.x environment handy to try to reproduce this from the > outside in, so I'm starting at the error code and working outwards... > > > > <1469384361 > > >1469384362>a0080 NO Mailbox format corruption detected > >

Problem moving between folders during 2.3.16 -> 2.5.9 upgrade

2016-07-24 Thread Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus
can be delivered to the folders via a sieve script, but both message moves and copies fail. If there is any fix for this issue, it would be greatly appreciated. I have been waiting since the release of 2.4.x for a version that would handle the I/O storm caused by automatically upgrading the mailbox f

Re: sync_client errors out after 2.3.16 -> 2.5.9 upgrade

2016-08-01 Thread Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus
On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 12:34:13PM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > 2.3.2 wasn't version 10, it was version 7! It would have upgraded through 8, > 9, 10 - and maybe you needed to reconstruct to get GUIDs for those versions - > that sounds familiar. > > Bron. > Hi Bron, Is there a way to

Re: sync_client errors out after 2.3.16 -> 2.5.9 upgrade

2016-08-12 Thread Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:30:03PM +1000, ellie timoney wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016, at 02:14 PM, Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 12:34:13PM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > > 2.3.2 wasn't version 10, it was version 7! It would have upgraded

Re: Huge performance problems after updating from 2.4 to 2.5.8

2016-07-15 Thread Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:34:53PM +1000, Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus wrote: > Squatter indexes will be broken without the latest patches on the 2.5 branch. > The data gets indexed differently, and I had to patch the squatter code to > search both styles. > > Bron. > Hi, Does this problem

sync_client errors out after 2.3.16 -> 2.5.9 upgrade

2016-08-01 Thread Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus
Hi Cyrus Developers, Thank you for your patch to address the folder move problem between un-reconstructed mailboxes after the 2.3.16 -> 2.5.9 upgrade. I am not sure, but it looks like there may be another overly aggressive check. I keep getting these fatal errors from sync_client: Aug 1

Re: sync_client errors out after 2.3.16 -> 2.5.9 upgrade

2016-08-01 Thread Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus
mailboxes before you can use them for replication. The GUID is used > > > for replication - if we allowed zero GUIDs, then every message would > > > deduplicate to the same message! > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016, at 07:56, Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus wrote:

Re: Performance problem

2016-08-05 Thread Kenneth Marshall via Info-cyrus
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 11:11:33AM -0400, Eric W. Bates via Info-cyrus wrote: > We are migrating our cyrus from a venerable computer to a new one. > > We've been gradually moving individuals over to the new machine and are > quite surprised at the poor performance characteristics we're seeing on